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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2022-11-08 01:46 pm

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 66

Smudge for the winAs we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religious, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.     
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Re: International Travel Ban

[personal profile] methylethyl 2022-11-09 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're a US citizen, they can't legally keep you out.

Canadian citizens entering Canada have not been so lucky, from what I hear.

Re: International Travel Ban

(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, not exactly. My husband, born here with a US passport and never so much as a speeding ticket, is detained and almost ejected every single time we've crossed back in to the US. His name and birth date match someone they want and they threaten him for an hour and ask questions then fortunately let him go. There's literally no recourse and I honestly never know if he'll be released.

The rules are whatever they make up at the time. Very 3rd world vibe.

Re: International Travel Ban

(Anonymous) 2022-11-10 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not a lawyer but it occurs to me that he might try legally changing his name-- not in a meaningful way, but by, for example, adding an unusual middle name. That just might do it. And getting Global Entry documents is another good way to avoid problems, that takes a small fee and some paperwork.

I agree, in my experience, the rules are whatever they make up at the time. I have some wildly annoying stories myself.

Re: International Travel Ban

[personal profile] hearthspirit 2022-11-10 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Since when? We don't have any travel restrictions related to covid anymore at all.

It was also never possible to legally keep out a Canadian citizen -- it was explicitly on the TravelCan website that citizens were always allowed back in. I knew a few people who travelled unvaccinated to other countries that hadn't had the travel vaccine mandate and came back; a lot of people didn't actually realise that there was a Canadian mandate, because so long as you weren't trying to go to the US, they still felt free.

Re: International Travel Ban

(Anonymous) 2022-11-10 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Since when? What, two weeks ago? Who felt free? Canadians felt free? How odd, I seem to recall a truckers convoy about freedom as opposed. to not freedom.I seem to recall many Canadians using the word Free-Dumb in their idiot Facebook posts mocking the ones who didn't 'feel free.'